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Never, actually. Also you are wrong that the only use is crime. There are literally millions of stories in the last 13 years of cryptocurrency that demonstrate this. But of course keep screaming at the sun if you wish.
Millions? I'd struggle to name 3.
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AMD and Intel did it. The excuses ring hollow.
At least from my understanding AMD did so by making a new open source driver while the old one remained closed.
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What long list of reasons? LHR has absolutely zero impact on games. If anything, its presence was helping gamers because miners were at least somewhat put off buying LHR GPUs, making them more available to gamers.
"You don't own your hardware" is a very long list in my book.
I imagine Nvidia doesn't own the rights to the complete source code of the driver. Even if they wanted to open source it things move slow in big companies.
I would imagine that ownership of Nvidia's drivers would be more clear cut than most open source projects. Wouldn't it only be Nvidia's employees and contractors that have worked on the driver code? Then by default Nvidia would own the rights. If Nvidia doesn't own the code, do you then imagine they're in a sort of licensing agreement with the rightsholders that allows them to distribute the binary blobs but not the…
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> You realise crypto is more stable then most developing worlds governments? It's not.
Source: "trust me, bro" Here you go, kid: https://www.statista.com/statistics/326707/bitcoin-price-ind... https://www.statista.com/statistics/371895/inflation-rate-in... A great insight would take into account more prominent cryptocurrencies and 3rd world countries but you don't throw pearls before swines.
And inflation isn't the only criteria of stability for a government.
But you're correct about pearls before swine though.
Imagine if they actually leaked the driver source and verilog files though...
It's the 'secret Coca Cola recipe' leaked to Pepsi situation: The source code is still protected by copy rights and patents. AMD cannot just take it.
I'm not a big fan of limiting hardware to run only approved software. One day it's for limiting crypto mining, the next day it will be for limiting our ability to use strong encryption. It's a slippery slope.
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The US is a small part of the world. Just a reminder. You can open a bank account in the EU that allows depositing cryptocurrency. The US is on the decline. It's propaganda is great, though.
Chine -> banned crypto currencies EU -> plans to strongly control or outright ban crypto currencies US -> might also move against crypto currencies Idk. about India, Japan etc. but if EU and US moved they will likely follow. Just to be clear I'm speaking about crypto currencies like we think about them now, I'm sure there is a future for blockchain based currencies, potentially even spear headed by governments.
Not that they at same time aren't willing to provide services, just paid for in fiat...
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It's the 'secret Coca Cola recipe' leaked to Pepsi situation: The source code is still protected by copy rights and patents. AMD cannot just take it.
There are countries that don't care about US IP laws. China comes to mind.
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I am suggesting a monetary system that is beyond the influence of the state is a good thing.
Good for criminals and rogue states, certainly.
It’s ok if you don’t have a use for decentralized money. I hope you never need it, and continue a sheltered life of luxury and convenience.